Washing-machine



(No Model.)

' H. NADERMANN.

WASHING MACHINE. No. 380,814. Patented Apr. 10,1888.

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IIENRY NADERMANN, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

WASHING- MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 380,814, dated April 10, 1888.

(No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY NADERMANN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Gincinnati, in the county of Hamilton, State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in WVash-ing-Machinespf which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to those washingrna chines which are provided with vibrating rubbers capable of being lifted from the tub and temporarily coupled to a hinged lid preparatory to opening the latter; and my improvement comprises a novel locking device wherewith the rubber is secured in its elevated position, as hereinafter more fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the annexed drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a washingmachine embodying my improvement, the lid being closed and the rubber lever in the proper position to be elevated by theloeking device. Fig. 2 is another side elevation of said machine, the rubber being elevated and locked to the lid and the latter thrown open. Fig. 8 is an enlarged perspective View of the locking device in its normal or horizontal position. Fig. 4 is a perspective view showing the rubber lever maintained in its elevated position by a modification of said locking device.

A represents the washtub, which has a lid, B, hinged thereto at a.

Ois a vibrating rubber, the journals of which normally occupy vertical grooves in the opposite sides of the tub, said grooves being continued into the sides of the lid.

Rubber 0 is vibrated by a lever, D, the upper portion of which projects through a longitudinal slot, 5, of the lid, as seen in Figs. 3 and 4. The exposed end of this lever has coupled to it one end of a connecting-rod, E, the other end of said rod beingjointed to the operatinghandle F. This handle is hinged to the tub atf. Furthermore, the upper end of 'lever D has a hook-shaped spur, G,with which can be engaged the cross-bar H of my locking device. This crossbar is joined to a pair of parallel side bars, I 1, thereby forming a bail that can be readily turned in the ears J J, said ears being secured to the lid and on opposite sides of the longitudinal slot Z). The

ends of the side bars, I I, terminate with right angled extensions 6 t, for a purpose that will presently appear.

K isa sliding cross-bar, having at its opposite ends eyes'lc adapted to travel freely along the side bars, I I.

L L are notches or indentations in the under sides of these bars and near their hinged ends.

The operation of my washing-machine is as follows: The lid being closed and the rubber journals being confined within the vertical side grooves of the tub, as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 1, the operator grasps the handle F and works it back and forth, thereby imparting a vibrating motion to said rubber through the instrumentality of lever D, which plays freely within the slot 6. While the machine is thus being operated the locking device H I I rests horizontally upon the lid, the sliding bar K being now close to the bar H, as seen in Fig. 3. Consequently the locking device has no effect on the lever D; but when it is desired to elevate the rubber and temporarily couple it to the lid preparatory to opening the latter said device is then brought into service in the following manner: Lever D is first swung forward until its book G is directly over the bar H, as seen in Fig. 1, and the operator then grasps the side bars, I I,and swings them up to the erect position seen in Fig. 4, during which act the sliding bar K readily drops to the lower ends of said side bars. This erection of the bail H I I causes a similar lifting of lever D,and thereby draws the rubber journals up into the vertical side grooves of the lid, the right'angled extensions 2' i limiting the elevation of said bail and preventing it being carried beyond a perpendicular. Therefore these extensions prevent the bail falling back or toward the hinged end of the lid,while the bearing of lever D against the pair of remote cross-bars H and K causes said lever to maintain the position seen in Fig. 4.

clined side bars, I I. After the tub has been filled the lid is closed and the sliding bar K is grasped and drawn up quite close to the crossbar I-I,which act allows the leverD to be swung forward, thereby gradually lowering the locking device to its original or horizontal position. This lowering of, said device allows a corresponding lowering of lever D, and a consequent descent ofthe rubber journals into the side grooves of the tub, when the washing is continued, as above described. Finally, the notches L L are to be made in the side bars, I I, only when the construction of the machine is such as'to impart a very steep pitch or inclination to said bars when the lid B is thrown wide open, as in Fig. 2; but if the machine is so arranged as not to cause such an inclination of said bars when the lid is opened these notches are omitted, as seen in the modification of niyinvention illustrated by Fig. 4.

I claim as my invention- 1. In combination with a washing-machine having a spurred lever, D G, attached to a vert-ically-shiftable vibrating rubber, a swinging locking device consisting of the cross-bar H, side bars, I I, and extensions 13 i, a sliding bar,

K, being adapted to travel along said side bars, for the purpose described.

2. In combination with a washing'machine having a spurred lever, D G, attached to a verticallyshiftable vibrating rubber, a swinging locking device consisting of the cross-bar H, side bars, I I, and extensions 2' t, a sliding bar, K, being adapted to travel along said side bars, which latter are notched or indented at L L, for the purpose described.

8; In combination with a washing-machine having a vibrating and vertically-shiftable lever playing within a longitudinal slot in the top ofthelid, and aswinging bar mounted upon said lid and serving as a prop that supports said lever while it is being elevated, a stop or detent being provided to retain said lever in its elevated position, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY NADER'MANN.

Witnesses:

JAMEs H. LAYMAN, RANKIN D. J ONES. 

